Am Samstag, 18. November 2006 19:02 schrieb Mats Erik Andersson:
>   Dear All,
>
> I have now stopped running my two Bering-uClibc
> systems
> with a loglevel of 'debug', but there is still one way
> that my concerns remain. Contrary to the situation on
> my Debian Sarge system, Bering continues to write to
> the file /var/log/wtmp. Its size exceeds 2MB in less
> than a day. For the moment I made an entry into the
> 'crontab' to remove wtmp thrice a day. My ignorance
> is large in this area, but do I thereby commit a
> serious mistake in security matters? Do all you, users
> with long experience of Bering, apply another method
> to prevent the increase of wtmp? At one instance it
> exceeded 4.5MB on my first machine, so using the
> default /var/log-size of 2MB is out of the question.

Mats;

your pb is somewhere else.

A typical wtmp is 1 to 4kb and it's rotated automatically monthly - 
see /etc/lrp.conf.

kp

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